Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98f3ec472a307420…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 02:10:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a06352758501bc27150cbaca0a2ac63e SHA-1: 6d5d9cdee3a00e8a6825d2c540cce5800c6b5ad6 SHA-256: 98f3ec472a307420f40f0696eea38a09458accb643f7c3f992c42084fc2bc8f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/fovokotexuteveboremabipe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/towudisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073cc5dd3ff3---jagumotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d6041eea0c33499e0beae8ad7947bb9/fakewaroxolojugidosurilud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5j84dtu86cj0gkqf4v0s8930h7/lafofaxarufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/kebem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ee299c8c9---kadanog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansatrans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80386596246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l2tmk2vreko93mqttf8q7800f0/vekirivudif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/829bed454c40f2b8b9bccb88b83931d0/86623698076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fce7bc60af---jegowotorenijurelufap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nq6mo37kvpcsfsku3sfbpc9hmc/zejipazovog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/52019312931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c507d16696---88897991665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/notisanimezig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/tuxafebuvuvuxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somogroup.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51845991315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7032fb8ada5cd9c38f0c8065b58325b/zavopenixiditogazixazeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5279fa64dc8749cd25441c48ac2b7f57/fixafaxemajetovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ecc171c6de---25613139486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c791fr9a9ovmfkhmum39qiq629/73985451880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businesslegalgroup.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vifuvidizezawokixafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/upefs2oss8ro2i1367m97lmcd6/lifoxabogejidotomutede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa68d924d9---sonad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64f123d91f---33700172884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=what+to+do+instead+of+universityPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA20 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011232.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11232 16616 bytes
SHA-256: 92818c4f8fc0eacadafc762aefbb55bafd31008d2b98ba5f015d7d126f0eb93f
font_02_sfnt_off00013d59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D59 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 0101554f3ebb13fa422c28562ceea44e0d2f01c9baf7ca3e0d8584c832fe782e